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Preface Church Preface
at all times to be undone as fast as possible as
soon as circumstances will permit: afterw which
comes naturally the question how that which ought
to be undone may be so undone with least
inconvenience.
Constitutional Law — a vast establishment of offence,
whole ranks of them useless or worse than
useless, paid in a manner degree in some instances
defective, in others excessive with excess [and that excess
not only promoting but counteracting in the
strongest dyes the professed end of the institution]
with duties improperly chalked out, and excessive
and incongruous.
Whole Large classes and descriptions of men
disabled from taking their chance of a participation
in the benefits attached to these offices offices
Penal Law — The liberty of the citizen violated
and the penal code with offences
of imaginary malignity — [even moral duties
swept into the proscription attached to their name.]
The whole establishment in as far as it is
defensible may be considered as a sort of appendage
to the penal system, a branch of the police of which
the object is to take measures in the view of preventing
crimes by the prevention of the dispositions which give
them birth. In this point of view we shall see in
addition
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addition to the few simple arrangements which promise
to contribute to the end so many others which
either contribute nothing to it or what is worse
contribute in the most powerful manner to
the opposite mischief that the distraction of the
system more service will appear to be to be done by
to what it may be thought proper to pull down
than by what th may be thought proper to be
altered or left in its present state.
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